Jasper County MO Archives Biographies..... WOOD, George Bown January 28, 1852 - February 1, 1941 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bill BOGGESS http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005917 August 15, 2010, 3:17 am Source: Bill BOGGESS Author: Bill BOGGESS George Brown WOOD (1852VA-1941MO), was tenth of eleven known childern of Cassandra Hess BROWN (1813-1864) and John WOOD (1808-1861), born in upper Tenmile district, Harrison county, Virginia (now West Virginia), younger brother to widow, "Sis", Sarah Elizabeth (Wood) BOGGESS (1835VA-1918MO) http://community.webtv.net/billboggess2/SARAHELIZABETHWOOD , who moved her three young sons to Carthage September 1889. George was educated in Harrison county, in the one room log school house which is documented existing before 1830, 1/2 mile from home across Wizzardism run, in Carpenter Hollow near Jarvisville road & U S Highway #50, next to the ca 1855 relocated 1837 created Mount Morris now Point Pleasant Methodist Episcopal church & cemetery, where his oldest brother, James, & oldest sister, Sarah, were teachers. He later moved to Ohio. married Emma Jane HOWELL (1856IA-1935MO ), they had two known daughters, Laura (1874OH-1947MO) & Gertrude (1878H-1972WI) ("GWS" in cousin David Owings notes), for 1880 Federal census lived in Sunsbury township, Monroe county, Ohio, just south of Bellaire, Ohio where brother John Henry WOOD (1839VA-1926 IA) lived, before venturing with wife & two young daughters to Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri from Wheeling, Ohio county, West Virginia arriving 13 October 1882 after their river boat trip from Wheeling to Saint Louis then a "Frisco" train ride, and most likely joining them was nineteen year old nephew, Edward John WOOD, (1863WV-1943WV), http://files.usgwarchives.org/wv/harrison/bios/wood.txt , fourth known son of oldest brother James Alexander (1834VA-1914WV), for he spent about fourteen months in Carthage, later became an architect and the mayor of Clarksburg, Harrison county, West Virginia in 1908, later a friend of cousin S C BOGGESS (1874WV-1948MN), mayor of Carthage 1918. They lost first known infant son, George Brown, in 1885 and 2nd infant son, Howell G, in 1887. George last lived at 1320 south Main street, in "The Rose House" across street & trolley tracks from daughter of his brother, Confederate States Army veteran who arrived in Jasper county December 1869, Thomas Kennerly "TK" WOOD's, Georgie Sue (1870MO-1953MO), Mrs Edgar Hugh IRWIN. George was a gifted contractor, installing Carthage's first telephone system, many fine structures such as Carthage Collegiate College, Carthage High school in 1890, later as I knew it, the Manual Arts Building, the Washington school and the Irving school buildings as well as the First Methodist Episcopal church and other like structures. He also built many of Carthage's finer homes, such as the COWGILL home on Grand avenue, and possibly the ROSE house in which he died, plus some of Carthage's early streets. Reportedly, Geo with brother "T K" built some of the railroad trackage for Saint Louis & San Francisco Railroad, "Frisco", from Arkansas through Indian territory, now Oklahoma, to Texas. At turn of century, Geo spent three years near Wheeling, Ohio county, West Virginia installing telephone systems for small communities. They returned for March 1898 wedding of nephew S C BOGGESS to Kate KNIGHT (1876ENG-1928MO) in her uncle's home, James LUKE (1854ENG-1925MO), then assisting in the development of Carthage's Bellaire Place (no doubt named for Bellaire, Belmont county, Ohio where brother John Henry lived) where many of the well known Carthagian's built their homes. He served aa a director of Carthage National Bank, was on city council, as well as being a highly respected, public spirited, contributing citizen of Jasper county for nearly sixty years.   At time of George's death (from senility), he had lost his wife, Emma Jane HOWELL, six years earlier, his parents plus all six brothers and four sisters. His oldest daughter, a librarian till March 1940 (over 25 years), Laura May WOOD (1873WV-1947MO) was living with him, brother "T K" (1842VA-1918MO) died January 1918 in "Sis"- Sarah's, home where she died June 1918, neither due to deadly 1918 national flu epedimic while her son S C BOGGESS (1874WV-1946MN) was mayor. Their sister, Henrietta Jane (Wood) JARVIS (1847VA-1928OK), arrived in Carthage with widowed "Sis", Sarah, in September 1889. George's family, except Laura (who married late in life following father's death, buried with husband Rev Robert Jesse KYLE in Marionville, Lawrence county, Missouri), are buried in 1879 created Park cemetery, Block 33, Lot 100, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44687708 with sister Henriette & Blanch HOWELL (1870WV-1921MO) ie; Mrs J W AYLOR widow of Joseph W AYLOR (1839VA-1917), Emma's younger sister. George's parents http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=43925845 are buried in 1964 abandoned Methodist church, Maken/Point Pleasant cemetery, Harrison county, West Virginia, with sisters Sarah, Frances, Lucy and brothers William and Charles, which we restored in 2004. Brothers; "T K" http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44687043 in Park cemetery, Carthage, John Henry in Rose Hill cemetery, Belmont county, Ohio, and Robert Albert in Grove Hill Memorial Park cemetery of Dallas, Texas. 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